Reconstruction Era

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This amendment abolished slavery

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13th Amendment

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This amendment stated anyone born in the United States is a citizen with equal rights.

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14th Amendment

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This amendment gave African American men the right to vote

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15th Amendment

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This Freedmen's Bureau was created after the Civil War to...

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establish schools and provide job training to former slaves in the South.

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After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to -

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limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment

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The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in order to -

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Protect the voting rights of African American men

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Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment? The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, The positions taken in the Know-Nothing Party Platform, The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War, The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation

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The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War

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What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?

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Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt

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The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affected the lives of millions of African Americans by -

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Guaranteeing their permanent freedom from slavery

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Southern states passed the Black Codes described in this excerpt in order to -

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limit the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments